# seka
## Chichewa
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈse.ka/

### Verb

-seka (infinitive kuséka)
* laugh

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From French sec and Italian secco, both from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухо́й (suxój), Lithuanian sausas, Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: [ˈseka]
* Rhymes: -eka
* Hyphenation: se‧ka

### Adjective

seka (accusative singular sekan, plural sekaj, accusative plural sekajn)
* dry
** 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, →OCLC:Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

#### Antonyms

* malseka

#### Derived terms

* sekeco (“dryness”)
* sekega (“very dry”)
* seketa (“slightly dry”)
* sekigi (“to dry”, transitive verb)
* sekiĝi (“to dry off”, intransitive verb)

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

From Portuguese seca (“drying”), secar (“to dry”), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin siccāre, from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Doublet of seko.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛka/
* Hyphenation: sè‧ka
* Rhymes: -ka, -a

#### Verb

sèka (base-imperative seka, active menyeka, ordinary passive diseka)
* infinitive, imperative and colloquial of menyeka (“to wipe”)

##### Derived terms

* berseka
* menyeka
* menyekai
* menyekakan
* penyeka
* sekaan

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Balinese ᬲᭂᬓᬵ (seka), ᬲᭂᬓᬳ (sekaha, “villagers' club, society”), from Old Javanese sakhā (“friend”), from Sanskrit सखा (sakhā), सखि (sakhi, “friend”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /səˈka/
* Hyphenation: sê‧ka
* Rhymes: -ka, -a

#### Noun

sêka (plural seka-seka)
* (dialect) association

### Further reading

* “seka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Karao
### Noun

seka
* fuzzy-haired caterpillar (with either red or black hairs)

## Kituba
### Verb

seka
* to laugh

## Luba-Kasai
### Verb

seka
* to laugh

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

### Verb

seka
* to seek

#### Descendants

* Saterland Frisian: säike
* West Frisian: sykje

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑁂𑀓 (Brahmi script)
* सेक (Devanagari script)
* সেক (Bengali script)
* සෙක (Sinhalese script)
* သေက or သေၵ (Burmese script)
* เสก or เสกะ (Thai script)
* ᩈᩮᨠ (Tai Tham script)
* ເສກ or ເສກະ (Lao script)
* សេក (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄬𑄇 (Chakma script)

### Noun

seka m
* sprinkling

#### Declension
### References

* Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 472.

## Phuthi
### Verb

-séka
* to cut

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Rwanda-Rundi
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

### Verb

-seka (infinitive guseka, perfective -setse)
* laugh, smile

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From sèstra (“sister”) +‎ -ka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sěːka/
* Hyphenation: se‧ka

### Noun

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)
* (informal) sis (an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin)
    Synonym: séja

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: seca (regional)

### References

* “seka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Shona
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

### Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)
* laugh (at)

## Tumbuka
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

### Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)
* laugh

## Xhosa
### Verb

-seka$^?$
* (transitive) to establish

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.